A Midsummer Night's Dream is set in Athens. Pericles is also set in various Greek cities, as is The Comedy of Errors. The Comedy of Errors is a play based on the style of Latin authors like Terence or Plautus, who borrowed their style from Greek playwrights. However, none of Shakespeare's plays contain anyone who speaks a word of Greek onstage--they only speak English and occasionally French and Latin.
Is this a question? William Shakespeare did write his plays.
It was his job, or one of his jobs. Shakespeare was paid to write plays.
Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare's plays. Other theories may be entertaining but have no evidence to support them.
No, Shakespeare wrote plays, sonnets and poems.
No, Shakespeare wrote plays. Other people decided to sort them into genres.
Is this a question? William Shakespeare did write his plays.
It was his job, or one of his jobs. Shakespeare was paid to write plays.
Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare's plays. Other theories may be entertaining but have no evidence to support them.
No, Shakespeare wrote plays, sonnets and poems.
No, Shakespeare wrote plays. Other people decided to sort them into genres.
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Ten of Shakespeare's plays are categorized as histories.
William Shakespeare died in 1616.
Greek playwrights like Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides and Aristophanes were writing plays over 1800 years before Shakespeare was born. The Greek actor/playwright Thespis is credited with being the first actor and the first playwright around 535 BCE (BC).